The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-10-06

snt times ronng through the Champs Eiysees.
He threw that plumb, line over ancient
Rome and what became OF the realm or the
Casarsl Ask her war eagles, with beak
dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into
the Tiber. He threw it over the Assyrian
Empire of thousand years, the thrones
of Semiramis, and Sarlanapalus, and
Shalmaneser, of twenty-seven victorious OK
peditions, the cities OF Phenicla kneeling TO
the scepter, and all the world blanched IN the
presence. What became Of all the GRANDEUR
Ask the fallen palaces OF khorsaoad ana the
corpses of her $4,000 soldiery slain by the
angel OF the Lord in one night and the Assyrian
sculptures of tho worlds museums all that
now remains of that splendor before which
nations staggered and cfouched. God Is now
throwing that plumb line over this American
republic, and it is a solemn time with this
nation, and whether wo Keep HIS oaooaths OF
dishonor them, whether Righteousness or IN
EQUITY dominate, whether we are CHRISTIAN
or infidel, whether we fulfill our mission or
refuse it, whether Wa ara for God or against
him. will decide whether we shall as ma
ton go on in higher and higher career or go
down in the same grave where Babylon, and
Nineveh, and Thebes, anu Assyria are
sepulchered
HBut,n say you, "if there be nothing buta
plumb line what can any Of us do, for there
Is an old proverb which truthfully declares:
. If the best mans faults were written on his
forehead it would make him pull his hat over
his eyes What shall we do when, according
to Isaiah, God shall lay Judgment to the line
and righteousness to the pummet All,
here is where the Gospel comes in with a
Saviours Righteousness tn make up for our
deficits And while I $50 hanging on tho
wall plumb line, see also hanging there
cross And while the one condemns us tine
other saves us, if only we will hold to it.
And here and now you may be set free with
a more glorious liberty than Hampton,
or Sidney, or Kosciusko ever fought for.
Not out yonder, nor down there, nor up here,
but Just where you are you may get 1t. Inc
invalid proprietress Of wealthy estate in
Scotland visited the continent Of Europe to
get rid of her n,aladies, and she went to
Baden Baden and tried thoss waters, and
went to Carlsbad and tried those waters, and
went to Homburg and tried those waters, and
instead of getting better she got worse, and
in despair she said to a physician: "What
shall dog His reply was: Medicine can
do nothing for you. You have one chance
in the waters OF Pit Keathly Scot
land" as it p6sslbleT she replied. why,
those waters are on my own estatel" She re-
turned, and drank of the fountain, and in o
few months completely recovered. Oh SICK,
and diseased, and SHINING, and dying hearer.
why go trudging all the world over. and
seeking here and there relief for your dis
couraged spirit, when close by, and at your
very feet, and at the door of your heart, aye,
within the very estate Of your own conscious
ness the healing waters of eternal life may
be had, and had this very hour, this very
minute. this very Sabbath! Blessed be God
that over against the plumb line that Amos
saw is the cross, through the emancipating
power of which you and may live and live
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